City rivalries?

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There's an intense rivalry between Minneapolis and Portland regarding cyclists. 

There's also an old rivalry between Minneapolis and St. Paul... though at this point St. Paul has become a glorified suburb.  People are always like "but St. Paul such nice historic architecture downtown"...

Yeah.. because people wanted to build bigger and better buildings in downtown Minneapolis.  Nobody wants to build in downtown St. Paul... so they spin it into "yeah we preserve our historic buildings"

The two cities used to actually compete for having the biggest/tallest/best downtown... but now it's kinda pathetic

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New York is above considering any American city its worthy rival. 

Boston probably comes closest, because of the Red Sox and Patriots, and Philly a clear but distant second on the sports front.  If you're talking about more incohate cultural factors, I would say DC and San Fran actually loom much larger in our eyes than LA and Chicago.  LA is not really what we would consider a "city", and Chicago is just that odd place that operates under the collective delusion that upside-down tomato casserole is somehow "pizza", which of course it is not.

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When I lived in Philly, we definitely considered NYC to be our main rival in everything.  Pittsburgh was mostly an afterthought, except when it came to hockey I guess.  And upside-down tomato casserole was still, of course, an object of well-deserved derision.

And yet Chicago is so much more American than New York.. which is increasingly unique... and unrepresentative of the nation as a whole.

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New York is above considering any American city its worthy rival. 

Boston probably comes closest, because of the Red Sox and Patriots, and Philly a clear but distant second on the sports front.  If you're talking about more incohate cultural factors, I would say DC and San Fran actually loom much larger in our eyes than LA and Chicago.  LA is not really what we would consider a "city", and Chicago is just that odd place that operates under the collective delusion that upside-down tomato casserole is somehow "pizza", which of course it is not.

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When I lived in Philly, we definitely considered NYC to be our main rival in everything.  Pittsburgh was mostly an afterthought, except when it came to hockey I guess.  And upside-down tomato casserole was still, of course, an object of well-deserved derision.

And yet Chicago is so much more American than New York.. which is increasingly unique... and unrepresentative of the nation as a whole.

Are you really trying to play the "Real American" card here?  For shame.

I guess I am, if you wanna define it that way.